Dual Anonymous Reviews
STScI, September 25th 2019
Bahcall Auditorium
Morning: Facts and foundations – issues, actions and community reception
Time | Speaker(s) | Title | Notes |
08:30 | Ken Sembach | Welcome & introduction | |
08:45 | Stefanie Johnson (Colorado) | Unconscious bias in reviews | Basic introduction |
09:15 | Neill Reid (STScI) | HST TAC structure and proposal stats – before and after | Summary of HST TAC structure and metrics |
09:30 | Arvind Parmar (ESA) | ESA AO outcomes | |
09:45 | Louis Strolger (STScI) | Preparing the community | Building the process, establishing guidelines and documentation, levelers, tracking results |
10:15 | Christina Richey (JPL), Rupali Chandar (Toledo), Brian Williams (GSFC) | Community reactions | Perspective on community interactions |
10:45 | Coffee | ||
11:00 | Svea Hernandez, Crystal Mannfolk, Greg Snyder (STScI) | Panel support perspective + levelers | What was it like to support the TAC in this format? Challenges and differences |
11:45 | Priya Natarajan (Yale), Saurabh Jha (Rutgers), Rupali Chandar (Toledo) | Panel chairs & panelist perspective | What was it like to review proposals in this format? Challenges and differences |
12:30 | Jessica Kirk (Memphis) | Watching the TAC | Outside perspective comparing cycles 25, 26 and 27 |
13:00 | Lunch |
Afternoon: Spreading the word – adapting the process to other facilities
Time | Mode | Title | Notes |
13:30 | Molly Peeples (STScI) | Lessons learned so far from the HST TAC process | Over-litigating, false assumptions, framing proposals |
14:00 | Breakout sessions: 3-4 sub-groups | Challenges for individual observatories – discussion | Identify 3-4 per group, includes areas where ST could do better |
15:30 | Plenary session | Challenges – report out | Summary from each group followed by general discussion |
16:00 | Coffee | ||
16:15 | Breakout sessions: 3-4 sub-groups | What can be implemented? What remain as challenges? | Condense previous discussions |
17:00 | Plenary session | Summary and next steps | 1-slide summaries from each sub-group |
Breakout sessions will be in the Lyman Spitzer Boardroom, N420, S215 and S322, all in STScI’s Muller Building.
